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March 14, 2021 · Leave a Comment

ELA TESTING REVIEW WITH EARTH DAY FUN FACTS

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Preparing students for ELA Testing or the Naplan is always a stressful time – but incorporate it subtly with this Earth Day Fun Facts review activity and yes – it’s fun. 

 

Earth Day ELA Testing Activity

 

Here’s how.

WITH TECHNOLOGY

Technology never fails to captivate our students – so why not use this learning tool to ‘entice’ them into learning those tricky grammar rules that would otherwise be labeled ‘boring’ in a conventional classroom. 

 

INTEGRATED LEARNING

Combine this use of technology with some facts on a fun celebration and you’ve got interdisciplinary learning strands of the curriculum culminating – namely social studies/history/humanities and Language Arts.

Let’s take, for example, the fun celebration of Earth Day – a perfect celebration to not just have students learn all about the need to reduce, reuse, and recycle – but also subtly prepare them for testing.

So, how does that work?

Well, for one thing, students will first read a fun fact on Earth Day by accessing their Google Drive in Google Forms (that’s the technology part).

Earth Day ELA REVIEW TESTING ACTIVITY

Next, they will read and study the fact card not just for the Earth Day fun fact but also for the sentence structure, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation used to express that fact (that’s the ELA testing review part).

EARTH DAY ELA REVIEW TESTING ACTIVITY

 

Some Earth Day fact cards also feature deliberate ELA errors that students have to spot thus making the activity all the more challenging. 

 

DATA AT THE TIP OF YOUR FINGERTIPS

This kind of ELA testing review has a dual benefit. Other than benefitting the student, it benefits the teacher as well.

How so?

By alleviating the need for – marking!

Once students submit the Earth Day ELA Review fun-facts celebration quiz targeting essential ELA skills, they get instant feedback in terms of an instant score and a breakdown of errors.

EARTH DAY ELA REVIEW TESTING ACTIVITY

 

The teacher also gets a summary report of all student responses, individual questions, and an individual student’s response.

How innovative is that?
 
ELA Review Data at the tip of your fingertips to dictate further teaching and learning.
 

EARTH DAY ELA REVIEW TESTING ACTIVITY

 

SEASONAL FUN

Preparing students for testing needs to be on a consistent basis, and so this ELA Earth Day-themed review digital freebie is part of a bigger collection – use a seasonal resource from this collection throughout the year and your students wouldn’t have to worry when testing time approaches, for you have subtly prepared them to be resilient.

 

Want to try this Earth Day ELA Testing Digital Review freebie with your students? Click HERE.

 

Earth Day State Testing Review Activity

 

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE

More subtle learning activities with celebrations to come –  HERE’S the best place to keep in touch.

 
Stay safe!

Until next time…

 
 

 
 



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Laurane Rae is the founder of the educational website, Teach2Tell. Her teaching tenure has given her the opportunity to teach students at the elementary level (K-5), middle school (6-8) and high school level (9-11).

She designs curriculum in subject areas pertaining to math, literacy, literature, science, history and social studies. Her strong passion lies in improving students' writing skills, hence she has spent and continues to spend countless hours designing interactive lessons on this often considered difficult-to-teach subject.

She is a strong advocate of taking on the role of a facilitator and directing teaching and learning to be more student-focused. Moreover, her teaching mantra dictates, that less teacher talk and more action gets the pace of a lesson going.

In addition to fulfilling her professional duties as literacy coach/literacy co-ordinator, Laurane has also delivered professional development sessions to teachers and been a mentor to new teachers

To unwind after a busy school week, Laurane plays the piano and enjoys going on long hikes and biking trails with family and friends. She is also a pet parent to a very active Dobie called Mercy (her 4:30 am running partner) and cuddly bundles of joy (cats), Bouncy and Missy Boy.

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